Janet Levy: Steve Bannon, who served as the CEO of Donald Trump‘s 2016 campaign as well as a White House adviser in his former administration, and Musk, who donated over a quarter billion dollars to help get the president-elect across the finish line in 2024, are two of the Republican leader’s top allies. However, Bannon has long been critical of Musk, and routinely criticized his business ties to China.
The podcaster has previously called Musk a “stone cold liar” and said “his paymasters” are from the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). In a recent interview with Semafor, Bannon said that he and Musk disagree on “just about everything.”
by Gordon G. Chang | MEF | Dec 30, 2024
Elon Musk is brilliant when it comes to providing what the world needs, but he is ignorant about Taiwan. So, respectfully, Mr. Musk: China is China, Taiwan is Taiwan, and Taiwan, although close to China, is not China. Pictured: Musk meets with China’s then Premier Li Keqiang in Beijing on January 9, 2019. (Photo by Mark Schiefelbein/AFP via Getty Images)
- In fact, no Chinese ruling group has ever held indisputable sovereignty to the island.
- From 1928 to 1943, the Communist Party itself recognized Taiwan as a state separate and apart from China.
- If Xi Jinping thinks Trump will not defend Taiwan, will he then attack?
- [T]he People’s Republic is getting weaker — the Chinese economy is failing — making notions of inevitability outdated.
“From their standpoint, you know, maybe it’s analogous to like Hawaii or something like that, like an integral part of China that is arbitrarily not part of China mostly because… the U.S. Pacific Fleet has stopped any sort of reunification effort by force,” Elon Musk, appearing remotely at the All-In Summit in Los Angeles in September, said referring to Taiwan.
In May, Musk talked to CNBC on the same topic. “The official policy of China is that Taiwan should be integrated,” he told the channel’s David Faber. “One does not need to read between the lines. One should only read the lines.” And then the world’s richest man stated this: “I think there’s a certain, there’s some inevitability to the situation.”
Musk is brilliant when it comes to providing what the world needs, but he is ignorant about Taiwan. His conclusions could not be more wrong.
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